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Justina Pelletier, the West Hartford teenager who spent more than a year at the center of public custody battle between her family and Boston Children's Hospital and the state of Massachusetts, is in the hospital in Philadelphia. Pelletier, who had returned home to Connecticut in June after state officials and a Massachusetts judge reached an agreement allowing her to leave Boston Children's, was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital on Sept. 27, suffering from serious gastrointestinal pain. Last week Justina's family took her out of Yale-New Haven and had her admitted to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for further testing. Justina's father, Lou...

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Justina Pelletier, the West Hartford teenager who spent more than a year at the center of public custody battle between her family and Boston Children's Hospital and the state of Massachusetts, is in the hospital in Philadelphia.
Pelletier, who had...

Justina Pelletier is back in the hospital, according to a family spokesman.
Pelletier, 16, spent 16 months at the center of a widely publicized custody battle between her family and the state of Massachusetts. She returned to her West Hartford home on...